The Russian Investigative Committee said: ‘A 22-year-old resident of Makhachkala, while visiting her friend, who performs cosmetic procedures at home, died on the spot after the administration of an anaesthetic.
‘Currently, all the circumstances of the incident are being established.’
A friend of the dead woman said he had urged Shabasova not to undergo the buttocks procedure, which the Uma M had advertised.
‘The beautician who was supposed to perform the operation, only recently received a certificate,’ he said. ‘She completed a two-week course and became a cosmetologist. Prior to that, she was doing lash extensions.’
The friend said: ‘Mika went to her, because Uma is her friend, purely because of trust.’
Three days before the surgery she had a fever and she was off work.
‘She lived with three girls in an apartment – they all tried to persuade her not to go to this beautician.’
He said that the woman ‘secretly, when everyone was at home, simply left the house, rang a taxi and went for this surgery’.
She had previously had lips, nose, and chin procedures.
‘These were with different anaesthetics. But within 15 minutes she was gone.’
